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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wants the taxpayer to foot his legal bills of Rs. 3.8 crore for defamation cases filed against him by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Mr Kejriwal engaged a battery of lawyers to represent him, including Ram Jethmalani, one of the most expensive lawyers in the country.

Ram Jethmalani has charged him Rs 1 crore for retainership and Rs 22 lakh for each appearance in court.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expects the Delhi government to pay around Rs 3.8 crore in legal fees in a defamation case filed against him by Union minister Arun Jaitley, NDTV reported on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has forwarded the bills to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal for clearance. Baijal has sought experts’ opinion to figure out whether the government should pay the chief minister’s legal bill.

The controversies surrounding EVMs have made headlines with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BSP chief Mayawati raising allegations over the trustworthiness of the machines. Rejecting all these allegations and allaying concerns, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has come up with an ‘open challenge’ to test the credibility of EVMs, according to The Indian Express. "We will on fix a date for this open challenge. In 2009, too, the ECI had thrown an open challenge for anyone to demonstrate how EVMs owned by the ECI can be tampered with. No one could prove it. Since such apprehensions have been raised once again, we have decided to repeat the exercise to put all doubts to rest," said the report.

The Aam Aadmi Party wants the Delhi government to pay the bill of senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani who is defending Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case. The letter written by deputy CM of Delhi, Manish Sisodia to the L-G states that the comments made by Kejriwal were in the capacity of a CM and hence the government must foot the bill.

Former Member Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Congress from Delhi Amrish Singh Gautam said on Monday he quit the Congress to save his self-respect. Ahead of the forthcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, Amrish joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of BJP’s vice-president Vinay Sahasrabuddhe on Monday at State BJP headquarters.

New Delhi, April 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a full list of 272 candidates contesting the MCD Elections 2017 which will be held on April 23. The BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah is all set to contest the MCD Polls on all 272 wards. On Sunday the BJP officials released a list of 160 candidates contesting upcoming MCD polls from – North, South and East Municipal Corporation. The names of rest 112 candidates were declared today by the BJP. On Sunday the party also confirmed that they will be contesting the elections by forming an electoral alliance with Shrimoni Akali Dal (SAD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). The BJP has given five seats to SAD and one seat to LJP. After releasing the complete list of 272 candidates the BJP party which is in power in MCD confirmed that the candidates will be fighting on the symbol of Bharatiya Janata Party.

In Delhi, the MCD Elections is a three way contest between the AAP, Congress and incumbent BJP. The saffron party has been ruling the three wings of Delhi Municipal body for the past 15 years. The civic polls in three different municipal corporations have also become a question for the Bhartiya Janata Party as it suffered humilitaing defeat in Delhi Assembly polls.